The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill

The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn't Kill (2021) is a Japanese action-comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Kan Eguchi directs Junichi Okada as Akira, the near-mythical hitman known only as the Fable. It's the second film drawn from Katsuhisa Minami's manga.

Akira's boss hands him an order tougher than any hit: don't kill anyone for a year. So he plays at being an ordinary man, sharing an apartment with his partner Yoko as fake siblings and clocking in part-time at a design firm called Octopus, where no colleague suspects a thing. The quiet cracks when a con artist named Utsubo, fronting a charity NPO, teams up with contract killer Suzuki to squeeze people connected to that same office.

The real pleasure is the clash — ice-cold combat precision against the clumsy domestic comedy of a man trying very hard to seem normal. The fight choreography hits hard and stays inventive. One for fans of Japanese action who like a movie that can laugh at itself. Stream The Fable (2021) online on iFILM.